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MACHINERY FOR Enema 0R BORDBRING LETTER PAPER, 650. N 33- Patented Dec. 12, 1882.

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MAGHINERY FOR BDGING 0R. BORDERING LETTER PAPER, 8w.

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MAGHINERY FOR EDGING 0R BORDBRING LETTER PAPER, &c. No. 268,786.

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MACHINERY FOR EDGING OR BORDERING LETTER-PAPER, do.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,786, dated December 12, 1882.

Application filed August 2 1, 1882.

(No model.) Patented in France December 24, 1880, No. 140,343 in Belgium January 17, 1881, No.

53,597,- in England January 20, 1881, No. 236, and in Germany January 24, 1881, No. 14,752.

To all whom ttmay concern:

Be it known that I, ACHILLE DURET, a citizen of France, residing at Venze, near Angoulme, in the department of Gharente, inthe French Republic, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Edging or Bordering Letter-Paper, Envelopes, Visiting'and other Cards in either Black or 001- ors, for which I have received the following Letters Patent: French Letters Patent, for fifteen years, dated December 24, 1880, No. 140,343; Letters Patentof Belgium, for fifteen years, dated January 17, 1881, No. 53,597; Leti ters Paten t of England,for fourteen years,dated January 20, 1881, No. 236; and Letters Patent of Germany, forfifteen years,dated J anuaryilet, 1881, No. 14,752; and I do hereby-declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The machine for bordering paper, envelopes, cards, &c., embodying my invention is essentially novel in the following respects:

First, in that all the successive operations, commencing with presenting the paper to the machine and its taking the sheet to be edged or bordered'up to the inking of the sheet, are mechanically performed under special conditions. The operative attending the working of the machine has merely to be watchful.

Second, in the applications of and limitation of color on the borders of the sheets, the edge of each sheet being restricted in breadth by p the sheet which is placed above it.

Third, in the mechanical com binations,-which in their principle as well as their detail constitute the characteristic features on which 1 base my claim.

Figure 1 is a side elevation ofthe machine,

Fig. 2 being a plan thereof. Fig. 3 is a lateral elevation, seen from the side of motion transmission. Fig. 4 shows how the machine arranges the superposition of the sheets, leaving the width only of paper it is required to color. Fig. 5 is a plan showing the keying of the cams on the driving-shaft. Figs. 6 and 7 show in vertical section and in plan the suction mechanism for drawing the sheets and the air-pump for producing the necessary vacuum for actuating this mechanism. Figs. 8, 9, and 10 are details of the suction apparatus. Figs. 11, 12, 13 show the mechanism which acts on the plate supporting the sheets to be edged in order that this plate shall present the first sheet (taken by the machines suction apparatus) at a constant and determined height. Figs. 14, 15, and 16 are details showing the movements of the lifters or triangular sheet-holders. Figs. 17, 18 are a plan and elevation of the touchers or fingers. Fig. 19 shows the transmission of motion to the pressers of the bordered sheets while they are being removed. Figs. 20, 21, 22 are details showing the movements of the edging-plates, combined with the movement of the touchers. Figs. 24, 25,26 are details showing the transmission of motion to the wires which press the bordered sheets. Figs.27, 28, 29 show in three views the details of the mechanism for lowering the corner of the edged or bordered sheet at the moment the next sheet is thrown forward, and which in its turn is bordered by the same movement the sheet is thrown forward, and in its turn is edged by the same means and movement. Figs. 30, 31, 32 are a transverse, lateral, and plan view of the mechanism for making the borders of different widths with the same machine. Figs. 33 and 34 are views showing the means for stopping the machine in case of accident in end, which unite two girders, a also of cast iron, and which are made sufficiently long to allow of drying the paper when colored in best condition. The anterior sides, a, are made to receive the arched supports a, which terminate in blocks in which the driving-shaft 12 turns, and which are arched to leave free access to the plates bearing the piles of paper to be edged or bordered. The driving-shaft b has a fixed and loose pulley in front, which is rendered solid instantaneously from any part of the machine by acoupling mechanism. On this shaft b are arranged the cams or eccentrics c, d, e,f, g, h, z',j,f, and 7c.

The eccentric c, placed; in the longitudinal ICO axis of the machine, governs the whole of the mechanism, which takes the sheets one by one from the plates 19 p and distributes them to the following organs: This mechanism comprises two three-way taps, one for each of the piles of sheets, and simultaneously actuating the keys 0 of these taps, being connected at the, head 0 of the eccentric-liar c. The taps c are solid, with the pieces 0 fitted with gentle friction on fixed. slides c. The keys 0 are fitted with firm friction, so that the eccentricbar draws the taps 0 and pieces 0 until the latter rest against stops judiciously arranged in front and rear. When the pieces 0 return toward the shaft 1), and when they encounter the projection, the eccentric, which is not at the end of its course, turns the key 0 which then puts the tap c in communication with the'air-suction pump 0 by means of the flexible tube a. When, on the contrary, the pieces 0 separate from the shaft 1), they encounter another extreme projection. The eccentric then turns the key 0 at the opposite side and puts the tap c in communication with the atmosphere. In the first case the taps each draw a sheet by suction, and in the second case, after having borne these sheets a certain distance, they abandon them to two drawing-rollers, hereinafter described. The pump c,with vacuum 0 is actuated by the same eccentric 0 whose bar 0 is articulated directly on the piston. The taps 0 have one or two suction-tubes, 0, to which are branched others, 0", whose object is to lift the sheet by suction at several points. Atthe moment of suction the taps c are just above the plates pp, on which the sheets to be edged are placed in piles. As fast as the machine works the pile diminishes, and in order that these plates present the top sheet always at the same height they are arranged and moved as follows:

In referring to the Figs. 1, 2,11,12, 13 it will be seen'that the plates 19 are fixed on a slide; 10, guided in a slide, 19 and the roller p The slide 10 is submitted to the action of two counter-vieights, 19 10 the one, 1)", attached to the slide by its suspending organ, p balances (in passing to the roller 10", which belongs to the axis of the roller 10 all the weight of the plate and its accessories and of the slides, while that p is intended to balance the weight of the sheets of paper.

With the object of regulating its action in accordance With the variable weight of the sheets, the weight p is suspended at the end of a steel band, 11 which is applied to a surface bent in an Archimedean-screw form, 19 The plates and their piles of sheets thus equipoised are lifted for taking each sheet by aid of a lever, g 9 oscillating at g under the influence of the cam g. The arm 9 ends in a kind of jointed V, and having a spring, 9 which attacks by friction (with the aid of the extreme and movable part 9'') the slide 19. A spring, 9 compels the arm 9 to constantly follow the movements of the cam g. The sheets,

taken one by one by the suckers c, are transported by these apparatus as far as to a roller, f which turns with a continuous and rapid motion, and which is surmounted by two small rollers, f presenting themselves, respectively, above the course taken by the sheets of paper. These rollers f are .lifted when the suctiontaps 0 separate from the shaft 1) with the sheets sucked or drawn by suction; but as soon as these sheets are abandoned the indie-rubber rollersf are lowered, and, pressing on the roller them, to be projected in the marginers. The rollersf turn loosely in blocks f which support the bar f of the levers oscillating at f and receiving at the other end,f", the eficcts of the action of the camsff of the shaft 1). The sheets launched forward by the rollersf f fall into the triangles m, which are lowered in this movement onto an endless band, t, Figs. 1, 2,14, 15, 16. These triangles are at the lower ends of the rods m, which slide in the supports m and reappear above to come into communication with other rods, m that an angular lever, m m oscillating at m animates with arectilinear and alternate motion The cam 13 is shaped to produce the requisite displacements of the lever m m and rolls m These latter are cut with a groove, m in which is adjusted a projection, on, of the rods m, so that the rectilinear sliding motion of rods m are transformed on the rods m into a corresponding up-and-down motion. The triangles are weighted at m for bringing them into the lower position, and exercise their pressure on the paper edged, so that the brush that blacks them does not otherwise interfere with them. In the same supports, W, the rods n (which bear at the lower part the plates 12.) slide in a vertical direction. (See Figs.20,2l, 22.) Other rods, d connected to the lever d of the cam d, cause the rods n to move in an alternate and rectilinear manner, the same as the slides m. The plates n are furnished in front with a part, n intended to direct the sheets launched by the rollers f f under these said plates n. They are, moreover, covered with other and smaller plates, Z, which hold to the first by tenons or projections l, traversing curvilinear spaces l of the plates 1. These latter are e, and eccentric 0, Figs. 17, 18. Each one hears a toucher, 0, Fig. 22, which is mounted on the elastic arm 0 and traverses the plate a. The eccentric-bar e is maintained by the support rods n. The triangles m and the plates'nand l have movements, which are combined in the following manner: When the sheets are projected by the rollersf f the triangles m are at the bottom of the descending course and The sheets consequently encounter the sides of the triangles. The plates at descend to allow the t'allers o to press on the projected sheets. At this juncture the eccentric e pushes the f compel the sheets to pass quickly between' 6 solid with the vertical displacements of the the plates n and 1 above the ascending course.

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fixed to the head 6 of the eccentric rod or bar plates Z, and by aid of the curvilinear mortises 1 these plates are directed, with their touchers, first to one sideof the angle in then toward theother, the effect being to place the sheet exactly within the angles of the triangles m. Then it is thatthe plate 1 rises, then the triangle m, and lastly the endless cloth t is displaced for drawing along the'sheets which have been edged or bordered. To this mechanism is added the pressers j, two for each of the sheets of paper, Fig. 19. They consist of small metal shafts, whose lower endicoveredwith india-rubber, cork, or other suitable matter, is guided in the openings 11. of the plate I5 n, and whose upper end, fitted loosely in the apertures of a support,j rises with the said support, which'oscillates under the influence of the cam j and the motion-transmittersj j 7' These pressers press the bordered or edged 2o sheet and, keep it in position during the longitudinal displacement of the endless cloth t, which displacementisintermittentlyperformed with the guides 21 73 in the manner hereinafter explained. Above the triangles m the sheets are inked by aid of a brush, the segment of a circle, which at each turibis supplied with ink by contact with a metal sector, it, which moves in an oscillating manner by connection with the crank hikeyed on the axis of the sector, with the bar k of the eccentric h. At the bottom of the ink-holder h an agitating-grating,'h is placed, which this mechanism animates with a continuous backward and forward motion by transforming in this manner the oscillating motion of a sort of crank, h, keyed on the shaft of the sector, and in the center by the medium of a tongue,

h, belonging to a traverse, h, to which the grating If is connected. The connection of the eccentric-bar 7L3 and the lever 70 can be varied, as required, for giving and varying the amplitude of the oscillations of the inking-sector. The brush and inking mechanism are mounted on supports S, which can be moved on the traversers a of the frame, so that all this part of the bordering mechanism can be brought up or kept away, so as to allow of different forms of bordering being made.

To prevent the inked or edged sheets smearing at the edges, they are held by two wires, a,

stretched upon and applied to these sheets for a sufficient distance, and in order that. the

brush deposits color where the wires are these latter have an alternate transverse motion communicated to them. For this purpose the first traverse, a, to which these wires are attached, has a transverse backward and forward motion imparted from a secondary shaft,

with crank, which receives the oscillations of a bar, a, of an eccentric, a which turns with a loose pulley, u of the axis a v0n the other side of the pressers the sheets engage(by always lollowing the endless cloth t) under another endless cloth of metal, 11, whose object is to press the bordered sheets all the time they move, during which the drying takes place.

This drying is either naturally or artificiallyv performed by using one or more driers, gasjets, or by other means placed above or below the cloth 1;. The dried sheets are brushed on leaving the cloth 2; by aid of the brush as. During the final operation, which is intended to burnish, the ink-pressers rest on the sheets to maintain the regularity of the edging. After the brushing by the brush m the sheets fall into the compartments of a box, 3 Where a child collects them.

Transmission of mott'om-The movement of the shaft 1), besides the eccentrics 0d efght'jf, already mentioned, is transmitted to the endless cloth t by an eccentric, K, of the rod K and click K working in the ratchet K To this ratchet K is keyed the pulley K, which, by an endless cord, A, returns this movement to the rollers t 1" of the cloth t, and to that v of the metal cloth 7;. A A A A are rollers and pulleys ofthe cord A. The click K describing varying oscillations', permits of modifying the displacements of the endless sheets or cloths t and v, and so alters the breadths of the borders of the sheets. At the side of the eccentric K the shaft 1) bears a pinion, B, which communicates motion by the endless chainB tothe pinionsB B oftheinking-brush and polisherar. By means of the pieceD and endless cord D continuous motion is c0minunicated to the shaftf and by another endless cord, E, it actnates the eccentric pulley c of.

the shaft of the wire-pressers u.

Act-ion of the machine -It has already been described howthesheets, piled on the plates 1 are always presented at the heightot' the suckers 0, how these bear the sheets to the rollers f f and how the latter project them angle- Wise into the triangles m. The movement of the fingers or tonchers o for regulating the margin in the triangles m. This being effected these fingers, as well as the triangle m, rise, and the endless chain t is displaced in proportion corresponding with the width of border. Then the triangles redescend to margin another sheet, which is above the first, so as to form a conti nuous superposition of the sheetsin stages one on the other, as shown in Fig. 4. It is in this condition that the sheets receive the ink and are dried naturally or artificially, being pressed and passing between the endless cloths t and 22, being then brushed and burnished by the brush w,'finally reaching the box 1 where they are collected, after which the. other sides of these same sheets are edged in the same manner and bythe same means. When the sheets are double, and when the angle opposite the fold of the paper is presented, the suction apparatus is used to separate the sheets at the moment of suction by producing in this angle ajet of air from a bellows at the head of the machine, driven by a shaft, 8', jointed to the bar h of the eccentric h. The rollers f 3 are furnished with shafts 2, Figs. 27, 28, 29, which in descending with these rollers lay down the corner of the margined sheet when the next IIO 4 scenes ing-shaft b a cam, b, is placed, with double curve. A lever, [1 oscillating at b bears a small balance, b the arms of which are opposite the two holes I) of the table or theplates n it. These holes are closed when the sheet is properly bordered in the triangles m; but if this sheet is badly placed, or'it' it does not reach the triangles, the balance 1) falls and obliges the lever I) to follow the small eccentric b" of the cam I). At the'end b of the lever another lever, If, rests, which is held hooked to the uncoupling-lever b aslong as the end b follows the large eccentric b; but when this end slides on the small eccentric b, which occurs when the sheet is badly bordered, the unhooking of b and b takes place, the unlocking of the friction-pulleys ot' the shaft 1) is immediately efl'ected,and themachine stands still.

Having thus described my invention and the mode of carrying it into effect, I claim- 1. The combination of the taps o, suctiontubes 0", and keys 0 with the head 0 actuating bar 0 friction-pieces 0 0 pump 0 and pipe 0 substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The plate 1) and stem 17, combined with guide roller p weights on shalt of same, lever g 9 movable piece 9 and cam g, substantially as herein shown and described.

stantiallyas herein shown and described.

4. The triangles m, having weights on, combined with band t, rod m,having projection m supports m rods on, having grooves m and lever in m substantially as herein shown and described.

5. The rod on, plate n, and raised part n combined with rod d plate I, tenons 1, rod 0, having head 6 toucher 0, and arm 0, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The roller f combined with the'elastic rollers f blocks f bar f and cam f, sub- 6. The combination of the plate n, having openings M, with the pressers j, supports 7' and mechanism, substantially as herein described, for moving said supports, as set forth. 7. The combination of the ink-vessel 1L and grating h withthe sector h, crank h rod k crank h and traverse h, having tongue h, substantially as herein shown and described.

8. The combination of the ink-vessel I1 grating If", and mech nism, substantially as described, for actuating the same,.with the movable supports s and traverses a", substantially as specified.

. 9. The wires a, combined with traverses u, and mechanism, substantially as described, for moving the same backward and forward, as specified.

10. The combination of the endless cloth t and endless metal cloth 1; with the drying-jet applied to said metal cloth, substantially as specified.

AGHILLE DURET. Witnesses:

A. BLETRY,

R0131. M. HOOPER. 

